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Show Water Hog Is Denounced .As Poor Citizen With hundreds of Ogden citizens absolutely deprived of water for all purposes during dur-ing several hours each day owing to the extravagant use of city water in the central parts of the city, Mayor Frank Francis today issued a sharp warning in which he launched a vigorous attack on the "water hog." "With water being wasted as it is at present,, we could . extend the water system from now until dooms day and never catch up with the consumption. con-sumption. "The 'water hog' has brought about a condition here which means actual suffering suf-fering to those citizens who live on the extremities and higher sections of the city. "Figures on water con- sumption disclose that Ogden 1 is perhaps the most extrava-; extrava-; ' gant city in the United States with its water supply. ' "This practice of leaving v ' taps running day and night to insure cold drinking water must cease. "Sprinklinj lawns at all hours of the day and without nozzles on thj hose must stop at once if disaster is' to bo avoided. "The situation this year has disclosed that there can be no water fcr gardens in the summers to come. "Good citizenship demands that those consumers who are favorably , situated and have water at all hours should take precautions that will insure water in the low pressure district. dis-trict. "It makes no difference if the reservoirs are filled to overflowing. ov-erflowing. When the entire central part of the city is one gigantic sieve, how can we expect ex-pect to deliver pressure to the 'j citizens on the south bench I and other low pressure dis- tricts?" |